Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Via Independent:Honey, so your life will be sweet. Palm oil, to lubricate life's aches. Salt, to preserve and keep you. Kola nut, I can't remember exactly, but is it not enough that it is the most symbolically Nigerian thing, across all ethnic lines? What are these? Collectively, they form part of a "bride price" – money and gifts given by a man's family to a woman's upon their marriage. At school in Nigeria, during Yoruba history class, we were told about women who attracted incredibly high bride prices, dependent on their attributes.

A South African woman who started prostituting from age 13 up to 19 for R50 (N760) has tested a HIV-positive, the Durban Regional Court heard on Monday. IOL.co.za reports that the 19-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is currently completing Grade 10 in South Africa.

NIGERIAN asylum seeker Aderonke Apata has taken the unprecedented step of sending a video of herself having sex to the Home Office to prove she is homosexual in a desperate attempt to avoid being deported.

Ms Apata, 47, is the subject of an ongoing battle against deportation as in April this year, campaigners collected over 230,000 signatures for a petition to Home Secretary Theresa May in a fight to stop her being returned to Nigeria. A gay rights activist, Ms Apata fled to the UK after she was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death in Nigeria for being a lesbian.

Newly crowned Emir of Kano, northwest Nigeria, Sarki Lamido Sanusi Lamido is operating from a temporary office in Government House, 24 hours after he was turbaned and issued certificate of appointment by Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso as protesters occupy the Emir’s palace.